Risky bet: Macron hopes to contain far right in national elections after it surged in EU vote

French President Emmanuel Macron called snap legislative elections, saying he could not ignore the new political reality after his pro-European party was handed a chastening defeat and projected to garner less than half the support of Marine Le Pen's National Rally. He hopes that voters will band together to contain the far right in national elections in a way they didn't in European ones.